OPM gives agencies guidance on what makes a cyber job

FedScoop: The Office of Personnel Management knows the federal government has a shortage of cybersecurity talent, but to diagnose where those gaps exist, the agency has been on a tangled odyssey to define what a cybersecurity job exactly is.

The latest chapter in the quest to classify what makes a cyber professional is OPM’s new interpretive guidance for cybersecurity, which the agency described to federal human resources managers in an Oct. 15 memo.

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